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Yeseul Choi; Sanghun Lee; Hunseok Oh – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
This study aims to develop and validate the Principal Competency Inventory (PCI), an instrument used to assess a principal's leadership competencies that promote student learning in South Korea. An extensive review of prior work was conducted to understand the theoretical foundation related to school leadership and the competency construct of the…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Instructional Leadership
Charys Andrea Kunkel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is a critical national nursing workforce shortage, with estimates of over 200,000 new job openings for Registered Nurses (RNs) annually through 2031 (AACN, 2022). These forecasted workforce needs challenge nursing programs to increase student enrollment (Dowling et al., 2021) while maintaining high-quality education standards. Student…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Clinical Experience, Hospitals, Partnerships in Education
Samantha Ridout; Sigmund Eldevik – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This review is aimed at identifying assessment instruments used to measure treatment outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder who received early and intensive behavioral interventions. Forty three articles were included and appraised using the Council for Exceptional Children's Standards for Evidence Based Practice quality index rater.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychometrics, Behavior Problems
Doris Zahner; Jeffrey T. Steedle; James Soland; Catherine Welch; Qi Qin; Kathryn Thompson; Richard Phelps – Online Submission, 2023
The "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" have served as a cornerstone for best practices in assessment. As the field evolves, so must these standards, with regular revisions ensuring they reflect current knowledge and practice. The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) conducted a survey to gather feedback…
Descriptors: Standards, Educational Assessment, Psychological Testing, Best Practices
College Board, 2023
Over the past several years, content experts, psychometricians, and researchers have been hard at work developing, refining, and studying the digital SAT. The work is grounded in foundational best practices and advances in measurement and assessment design, with fairness for students informing all of the work done. This paper shares learnings from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing, Best Practices
Jones, Taryn; Kirwan, Garry; Howells, Simone; Hams, Andrea – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
Driven by the need to understand placement quality indicators in action, the Clinical Placement Quality Survey--Student (CPQS-S) is a psychometrically robust survey designed to evaluate allied health students' perception of placement. The CPQS-S was developed and validity established through the consensus of an interprofessional expert panel (n =…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Student Placement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Attitudes
Bunford, Nóra; Dawson, Anne E.; Evans, Steven W.; Ray, A. Raisa; Langberg, Joshua M.; Owens, Julie; DuPaul, George J.; Allan, Darcey M. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Emotion dysregulation is associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and confers risk for behavior problems and functional impairment; however, there is little guidance on best practices for measurement in adolescents. We developed a parent-report version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-P)). Evidence of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Self Control, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Best Practices
Crawford, April D.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Bhavsar, Vibhuti; Landry, Susan H. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2013
Although coaching is a popular approach for enhancing the quality of Tier 1 instruction, limited research has addressed observational measures specifically designed to focus coaching on evidence-based practices. This study explains the development of the prekindergarten (pre-k) Classroom Observation Tool (COT) designed for use in a data-based…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Psychometrics, Faculty Development, Preschool Children
Worrell, F.; Brabeck, M.; Dwyer, C.; Geisinger, K.; Marx, R.; Noell, G.; Pianta, R. – American Psychological Association, 2014
Effective teaching has long been an issue of national concern, but in recent years focus on the effectiveness of programs to produce high-quality teachers has sharpened. Long-standing achievement gaps persist despite large-scale legislative changes at the federal and state levels, and American students continue to show poorer performance on…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Assessment, Program Evaluation, Academic Standards
Heimlich, Joe E.; Carlson, Stephan P.; Storksdieck, Martin – Environmental Education Research, 2011
Environmental field days offer a distinct opportunity to connect students with science and the environment. The literature on field days, informed by research on field trips, provides a framework for best practices. If there are best practices, however, then presence or lack of the practice should have a discernible impact on the outcomes of the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Delphi Technique, Field Trips, Environmental Education
Morgan, Deanna L. – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2010
Cut scores are used in a variety of circumstances to aid in decision making through the establishment of a clear cut line between adjacent categories. Community colleges regularly use cut scores on placement tests to decide the appropriate course for each beginning student: the first college-level course or a developmental course, depending on…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Cutting Scores, Psychometrics, Best Practices
Elosua, Paula; Iliescu, Dragos – International Journal of Testing, 2012
Psychometric practice does not always converge with the advances of psychometric theory. In order to investigate this gap, the authors focus on the 10 most used psychological tests in Europe, as identified by recent surveys. The article analyzes test manuals published in 6 different European countries for these 10 most used tests. A total of 32…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Personality Measures, Error of Measurement, Foreign Countries
Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Jones, Debra Hughes; McCann, Erin – National Staff Development Council, 2009
The National Staff Development Council (NSDC), a private, nonprofit association, has outlined high standards for educator professional learning. One demonstration of NSDC's commitment to the goal of ensuring all schools support and use high standards for professional learning is the organization's investment in developing an instrument to assess…
Descriptors: Evidence, Psychometrics, Faculty Development, Academic Standards